Archives for October 2013

The department welcomed five new graduate students, Taylor Cyr, Maxwell McCoy, Micaela Quintana, Sam Richards and Carlos Ruiz, into the program at the annual Fall Welcome Luncheon. Faculty, staff, and continuing students gathered to meet and talk with the newest members of the UC Riverside Philosophy program. The group also welcomed visiting scholar, Marie Jayasekera, from Colgate University.

STUDENT PROFILE

FACULTY PROFILE

Professor Jaworska comes to UCR from Stanford University. Earlier she worked in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Her current project is entitled “Ethical Dilemmas at the Margins of Agency.”

NEWS

Dear Colleagues, I am saddened to inform you that Bernd Magnus, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, passed away on November 3, 2014, at the age of 76. He was a long-time member of UCR’s Philosophy Department, serving as its Chair from 1972 to 1976 and, again, from 1979 to 1983. Born in Danzig, Germany, Prof. Magnus […]

The Philosophy Department’s Distinguished Professor Carl Cranor climbed and then descended Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania this summer. Mt. Kilimanjaro, a collapsed former volcano, is the tallest mountain in Africa at 19,341 feet. It is also the highest freestanding mountain in the world rising about 16,000 feet from its base in the plains below. Click the […]